This issue of FYI considers the implications of a poll conducted for the World Economic Forum by Gallup International and Environics. The poll asked 36,000 citizens in 47 countries across six continents to rate which institutions they trusted.

November 22, 2002In the first weeks following the historic election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as Brazil's next president, mixed but largely positive signals about the likely direction of the transition and early months of the new administration have begun to appear.

CSIS sponsored a conference on the economic consequences of an attack on Iraq. The experts who first developed a set of war scenarios and then collaborated on an analysis of the economic consequences of an attack on Iraq.

Iraq is a case history of the law of unintended consequences. Between 1919, when modern Iraq was created out of the wreckage of the Ottoman empire, and 1958, when the monarchy was overthrown and King Feisal assassinated, Iraq experienced 8 Kurdish revolts, 9 Shiite...

Somaliland was an independent state for five days in 1960 before it merged with the former Italian Somalia. Since the Somali Democratic Republic became a failed state in 1991, Somaliland is the one part of the former entity that has managed to put in place sustained...